Fresno County has BANNED commercial cannabis activity in unincorporated areas. No dispensaries, cultivation, manufacturing, distribution, or delivery businesses permitted. Ordinance 18-010 opts out of commercial cannabis.
Fresno County Board of Supervisors adopted a commercial cannabis ban. Ordinance Code Chapter 10.90 prohibits all commercial cannabis activity in unincorporated areas including retail dispensaries, cultivation, manufacturing, testing, distribution, and microbusinesses. Deliveries originating outside the county may pass through per state Business and Professions Code §26090(e). The City of Fresno has its own retail permitting; county ban applies only to unincorporated land.
Operating unpermitted cannabis business: nuisance abatement, daily fines, DEA/BCC enforcement.
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